Turning Points

Top Executive of the Year

Susan W. Dio

Chairman and President, BP America

The first 17 years of my career were at BP’s Green Lake Chemicals plant near Victoria, Texas. My husband owned and operated a small business where we lived. The work was physically and mentally rewarding. I qualified as a certified welding inspector (the only woman with that cert at our facility) and, alongside an innovative team, filed two patents. But after the birth of our second child,